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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see absolutely no liability for staying that long. Normal people will see that long tenure as an asset.

Somehow the internet has convinced millennials and younger that jumping jobs every 18 months is not only okay but is a career asset. They're delusional, and once they hit their power years in early 40s-late 50s, alot of them are going to find out how dispensable they are. [/quote]

I've had a lot of different jobs and the career asset isn't moving a lot, it's the skill and career growth that unfortunately can be very difficult to get in some fields if you stay in the same place. If you can get that growth without moving, great. But the issue with staying someplace for 18 years isn't that you stayed there for so long, it's that you may or may be employable more broadly--you've never had to figure this out. A lot of senior employees lose their good jobs and struggle to find something new because much of their value was organization-specific, they don't have great networks, and they don't know how to job search. And there's not a way to test this other than by actually looking for a job. [/quote]

+1. I left the federal government after 9 years because I knew if I didn’t leave soon, I would probably never be able to. Loyalty is great but people underestimate how much you can learn in a new organization and, conversely, how fossilized your thinking and practices can be staying in one place. It’s not just job-specific skills but also seeing what practices work or don’t, what cultures are better or worse, etc. These things are especially important at a management level.[/quote]

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